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Steep: Road to the Olympics (beta)

In terms of the Olympic events, due to Ubisoft coding in a sarcastic commentary team, to which the only logical response after a bad run is to stick a snowboard into each of them via where the sun don’t shine, this won’t work for me.

In terms of adding a couple of new mountains, with new graphics, including cherry blossom trees, it will. Explored a little and managed to find this crevasse that leads into a tunnel that is very cool to bomb through at speed.

 

Lately I've been spending about a half hour or so completing a side quest or main mission on HZD and then playing Injustice 2 for about an hour or so. I'm trying to level up Harley as best I can with whatever gear is made available through the loot boxes and/or Multiverse rewards.

 

Harley is the reason I bought the original game and subsequently the sequel. Initially I was skeptical because it sounded like she had a different voice in I2, but she's still great.

 

Lost Sphear (Demo)

You know, I miss the days when a demo was actually supposed to sell me the game, not hack me off so much that I swear never to buy it or anything else from the studio ever again.

Case in point: You go around this game, it starts quite innovative, with a world that has missing pieces - that’s pretty distinct. After that, it’s a standard enough retro-JRPG, with dungeons, on-screen dialogue and a battle system that looks FF-influenced. One innovation here is you can move around the field, with different characters having attacks that take advantage of positioning.

So how does it go wrong? Well, you’re dropped into an unfamiliar world and game and systems and someone thought it would be a good idea to massively spike the difficulty on the boss. So much so that the fights before it are utterly unrepresentative of what you end up taking on, so you go into that battle with hugely false expectations and get your arse handed to you in such an overkill manner it feels like one of those ‘you cannot win this battle’ sections, but just as you think that, you get the ‘game over’ - to which the only response is: **** you.

Have a dungeon section? Yes. Have enemies in it? Yes. Have a boss fight? Yes, but make it one that can actually be won fairly easily. Instead by the time you’ve realised the level of hits, you’re on uphill odds you can’t recover from. And yes, it might be that ye old grinding technique is the only way to do this, but again, some indication of this would have been better.

If I see it going cheap, very cheap, maybe I’ll reconsider but as it is? This game just killed itself with a dumb demo.

 

Child of Light was a ps+ game this year, not that long ago, I think in September.

I have been playing a bit of Banished, which is a strategy survival game.

 

I downloaded the Monster Hunters World Beta and played it for about half an hour or so. It's pretty much what I expected it to be; essentially a hack-and-slash game where you roam around the environment hunting the animals and picking up items along the way. Not really my cup of tea; I was only slightly interested in it when they announced that Aloy from HZD would be an available DLC.

 

Civ V. I have just started another multiplayer game with a friend who does not have Civ VI, I was surprised how excited I was to play it again, it is such a cool game. Sparked my love for the Civ franchise. We are about 132 turns in.

 

Guardians of the Galaxy the Telltale Series

Not as good as I was expecting after Batman TTTS and Tales from the Borderlands but it's not bad. I got it in the Black Friday sales so I can't complain too much I guess.

 

Kantai Collection (a.k.a. Kancolle)

It's a war strategy game, focused on anthropomorphized warships, mostly old Japanese ships.

Got into KanColle based on recommendation from friends.

 

Destiny, the first one. A friend and I are playing the whole story together and the dlc's. It is fun, I played it before as a titan, and am now playing as a warlock, which is an awesome character.

 

How is that game as a whole?

 

The demo is available on PSN. I downloaded it several weeks ago but have yet to play it.

 

If you want things like a story structure, it doesn't have one.

If you want to be able to play around on huge mountains that you explore at will and it all just keeps on going, it's brilliant. Even better when combined with Media Player enabled custom soundtrack.

Of course, I recall loving SSX3's mountain structure where, if you took the right path, you could go from top to bottom of the mountain's 3 stages in 30mins, but, go too far off-course and you get placed on track. Here, that doesn't happen - it just keeps on going. I really love that aspect.

It's probably best seen as a more relaxing, laidback game unless you decide you want golds on every event, in which case, good luck.

 

Knights of the Old Republic. I've only plaid Kotor 2, some years ago and I really liked it. I never had the first one on my old Xbox but now I'm playing through it on my iPad. I'm fairly far in the game, I forget what level. I'm a female Jedi guardian light side character. At some point I'll replay as a dark side character l. Itvrrally is as good as everybody says it is, though i prefer 2.

 

I picked up Siege of Dragonspear in the GOG sale, so I took that as an excuse to replay all of Baldur's Gate.

Controversial take time: widely acclaimed classic RPG Baldur's Gate is pretty fun. Also Inquisitor kit is OP plz nerf but only after I beat Throne of Bhaal.

 

Battlefront II: Resurrection dlc. 1/3 of the way through, seems pretty good so far.

 

Taking another break from HZD to play the third and final chapter of Life is Strange: Before The Storm.

 

darkspine10 and I are going to start Before the Storm tomorrow! I can't wait!

 

I won't get into any spoilers, but I will say a major disappointment is the voice acting for the non-protagonist characters. Many of the adults in the game seem like they're just reading straight off of the script with no emotions/personality. Like they're bored and just want to get it over with.

Reminds me of this scene from a Simpsons episode.

 

Been playing Star Wars Empire at War.

 

It's almost like they shouldn't have hired scabs or something.

 

Voice Actors Mafia is gonna have field day.

 

The voice actors mafia is just Joe Mantegna with a baseball bat, yet somehow it still gets the job done.

 

Billy West tags along sometimes. For moral support.

 

I really didn't have an issue with the woman who replaced Ashly Birch as Chloe's voice actress. As I said, it was just the characters that only have minor roles in the game that were kind of drab.